Thread by @RobertGehrke

Time for the Monday Covid numbers:
🌡 254 cases, ⬆️ 94 from last week
😔 2 deaths, 2,365 total
🏥 220 hospitalized
🧪 2,121 people tested, 12% pos., 6,936 total tests, 3.7% pos.
📈 7-day avg, 348 cases/day, 9.6%/6.4% pos.
💉 2,846,668 vaccines given, up 2,722 #utpol

Quite a bit not to like here. Cases are up 19% from last week.

Hospitalizations are up 5. Covid patients in ICU up 4 to 72. Referral ICUs are 70% full.

Info on the 2 deaths:
• Emery female, 65-84, hospitalized
• SLCo male, 85+, hospitalized

#utpol

We now have 5th death from a breakthrough case. But should emphasize these are very, very rare.

And of the 2,437 cases in the past week, 2,237 have been in unvaxxed people. The 7-day infection rate per 100k for unvaccinated people is 120 compared to 14.9 for fully vaxxed. #utpol

No variant numbers today.

Vaccinations very low (typical for Mon.).
• 1,570,854 w/ 1 shot, up 1,201. 48% of all Utahns, 60.4% of eligible.

• 1,396,838 fully vaxxed, up 1,643. 42.7% of Utahns, 53.7% of those eligible.

On pace to get 70% of adults 1 shot around Oct. 1. #utpol

Actually I made a mistake in that calculation. On pace to hit 70% of adults with 1 shot by mid-to-late September.

Utah is now 4th among states with fastest growth (5th if you count Guam).

Very choppy. #utpol